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  • Avian Navigation

    www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17855194 Please look at this link as it covers important ground on Avian Navigation.  You will see that one of our heroes David Keays has established that the magnetite structure in the beaks of pigeons does not exist.  The magnetic theory still has problems because you cannot navigate using a compass without knowing where you…

  • Memory is not in your head

    Rupert Sheldrake has recently written a book entitled The Science Delusion. In this book he dedicates two chapters to this subject: “Are memories stored as material traces?” and “Are minds confined to brains?” The prevailing idea is that all our memories are stored in our heads.  However, there are a lot of problems with this…

  • The best overview of the current ideas on Avian (bird) navigation, April 2012

    By Professor Gary Ritchison of the University Works at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond Ky, USA. His long-term interests have been in avian mating strategies, specifically examining factors that influence mate choice (and choice of extra-pair partners) by female songbirds and avian vocal behaviour (particularly the functions of song), the ecology and behaviour of grassland…

  • Emperor Penguins

    I have always been fascinated and touched by the devotion of Emperor Penguins and their rearing of a single chick in possibly the remotest and severest of environments on the planet. They breed in the depth of the Antarctic winter during 24 hours of darkness in temperatures which range from –20 C to – 50C…

  • Morphic Resonance

    Morphic resonance is an idea developed by Rupert Sheldrake which describes how the universe is pervaded with morphic resonances that organise and manage our world.  He describes this in detail in his book, “Dogs that know when their owners are coming home”. The existing classical model of a mechanistic world described by Science fails to…